Game apparatus.



No. 719,145. PATBNTED JAN. 27, 1903.

A. C. SCHNEIDER. GAME APPARATUS. APPLICATION FILED OCT. 30, 1901. N0MODEL.

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GAME APPARATUS.

SFECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 719,145, dated January27-, 1903. Application filed October 30,1901. Serial No. 30,577- (Nomodel.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ALBERT C. SCHNEIDER, a citizen of the United States,residing at Peoria, in the county of Peoria and State of Illinois, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Game Apparatus; and I dohereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription of the invention, which will enable others skilled in theart to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention has reference to a game apparatus wherein a tenpin gameis provided for indoor use which is compact, cheap at first cost, andvery useful for the purposes for which it is designed.

The object which I have in View is to provide a game of the classdescribed consisting of a miniature table supported upon legs, the tablebeing substantially circular in appearance and provided with ahorizontal offset forming an irregular contour of the circular edge ofthe tablefand upon said table is arranged ten wooden pins. These pinsare each connected by means of strings in a common ball or knob beneaththe table, the strings being secured in their respective pins and passedthrough perforations in the table over which the pins are stood; and theinvention consists, further, of a post extending up from the horizontalprojection of the table, and connected to said post is a horizontalreach, from which is suspended a ball adapted for knocking down thepins.

The invention has for its further object details of construction and inthe combination of parts, as hereinafter more fully described, andillustrated in the accompanying drawings, forming a part of thisspecification, in which- Figure 1 is an elevation illustrating myapparatus. Fig. 2 is a plan View of the same,

and Fig. 3 is a detail of one of the pins employed in my apparatus.

In the figures, 1 indicates a table-body supported upon suitable legs 2,of which there are three. The table 1 has a substantially circularappearance, with the exception that there is provided ahorizontally-curved extension 3, forming a part of the table-body 1,which forms an irregular contour of the circular edge of the table atthis point. The table-body is arranged with a series of perforations, asat 4, (shown in cross-section in Fig. 1,) and it is designed to placethese perforations in manner similar to the plan shown in Fig. 2, overwhich pins are placed, to be further described, and 5v refers to anenlarged perforation passing through the table-body in the extension 3thereof.

6 indicates a suitable post designed to be detachably connected with thetable-body and is seated in the perforation 5 by a reduced extension,somewhat as shown in Fig. 1.

7 refers to a horizontal reach provided at one end with a socket 8, inwhich it is designed to insert a reduced part of the upper end of thepost and to make the post and reach detachable from each other, and thefree end of the reach overhangs the center of the table-body, from whichis suspended a string v9, to the lower end of which is secured a ball10, raised a suitable distance above the upper surface of the table, asshown.

11 indicates a series of wooden pins, of which there are ten, designedto be seated upon the table above each of the perforations t therein. Ineach of the pins is provided a short vertical opening 12, leading upfrom the bottoms thereof, which communicate with a transverse opening13, extending in from one side of the pins, substantially as shown inFig. 3, and 14 indicates strings which are slipped through the openings13 and carried down through the openings 12, and the outer ends of thestrings are provided with knots to prevent the ends of the string frombeing pulled down through the openings 12, it being noticed that theopenings 12 are less in diameter than the openings 13. The strings fromeach respective pin are then passed down through the openings 4. in thetablebody, and all of the strings have their ends joined in a commonknob 15, suspended beneath the table. The pins being placed in thepositions shown in Figs. 1 and 2, the ball is thrown to cause it toengage with the pins, the object being to see how many pins may beknocked down with one throw of the ball. The provision of the stringsand knob beneath the table is to provide for the resetting of the pinsin their respective places simultaneously byone pull upon the stringsthrough the knob connected therewith.

This apparatus has been designed with a view of offering to the trade aneat, compact, and durable game of the class described, which may besold for a nominal sum and arranged to have the parts of the devicedetachably connected for ease and convenience in shipping, hitherto notfound in games of this class, and by the provision of the horizontal orirregular offset of the body of the table, from which extends the post,I have removed the objection common in light devices, where the ballwhen swinging in a circle interferes with the post from which it issuspended, as in the present device the post is removed out of thecircle bounded by the main body of the table on which the pins arecarried, which to a greater or less extent prevents the ball from comingin contact therewith.

Having thus fully described rnyinvention, what I claim, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

In a game apparatus, and in combination substantially as described, atable substantially circular in outline having the horizontal offset 3,a post detachably connected with the portion 3 of the table, ahorizontal reach detachably connected with the upper end of the post andhaving a ball suspended from its free end, and a series of pins adaptedto stand in vertical positions at given points on the table, and meansfor resetting the pins after being displaced from their verticalpositions, for the purposes set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

ALBERT O. SCHNEIDER.

Witnesses:

ROBERT N. MCCORMICK, CHAS. W. LA PORTE.

